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Ellen Key Quotes

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: swedish
Birth: December 11, 1849 - April 25, 1926

Topics

Day Silence Red People Ideas Go

I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

Football Me Hair Fashion Makeup

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Great Travel Go Move Affair Sake

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

Moment Language Birth Begin Even

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

Sigourney Weaver

World Help Look See Guy Distress

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

Me Problem Land Ears Just Sucker

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

Myself I Am Moving Forward Moving Up

My dad worked three jobs and was a teacher. My mother was a teacher's aid, making, like, $3 an hour. My father went on to get his master's and became active in all these minority engineering programs. And my mother started running for public office. All that happened after the kids were adults. But I'm insanely proud of them.

Father Mother Teacher Proud Three

I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like that in my family. In some ways, I'm envious, because they have someone that's so completely in their corner. And at the same time, I imagine it may at times feel like it's stunting.

Michaela Watkins

Family Relationship Time Sibling May

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

Music Small You Create Distance Go

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

Joseph Kosinski

Hope Think You Movies Excitement

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Great Acting Skill Nice Stability

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

Respect Hate People Me Think Artist

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